fast and michiganders to do more business with michiganders. matchmaking and getting people signed up. how's that for a great concept? what works. we started it last year. a couple years ago actually. but progress has been tremendous and started in terms of purchasing by with utilities with consumers on the landing site with two banks, huntington and fifth third. since 2010, in 20 11 and 20 told, over $800 million for purchasing dynasty to michigan another based on and has almost $2 billion of loans made in the last two years because of these programs and is going well that exciting but it is spread yesterday to announce the ford and chrysler are also joining the program. let's keep this going, get michiganders buying more from michiganders because that's our jobs. [applause] now let me turn to the people front, which is critically important that we don't talk enough about that. because we people in need in our state would need to do more to reach out to giving great service. one program i'm tremendously excited about, gets me excited talking a

-- michigander sounds like the goose and the gander and i have tried mightily to get that word in the dictionary. i have failed so far but now that it's on c-span -- [inaudible] >> depends on popular use. one of the words that came out of the 80s was the word humongous. there is no reason that word should be named as language but i can remember these two kids were walking down the street in los angeles and one kid says i've got this humongous exam tomorrow that i have not studied. it was so monoport it. another were to fit the word. it fit the situation. it sounds like the weight of the world is on your shoulder but it spread like wildfire. .. john adams is created with the word chickadee, meaning bird. you can imagine he came up with that himself. he heard it from a gartner or somebody in the street. but he's the first time ever to write it down and say what it is, the word chickadee, which again, meaning a word made to sound like what it is. so smile is the word for smile. try to say it without smiling. i mean, were getting on the greek and latin stands. the words got to have it. it

what keeps us going is buying more from michiganders because that is more jobs. [applause] now, let me turn to the people front, which is critically important. we do not talk enough about that. we need to do more to reach out and give people great service. one program i'm excited about is at least two potential. the department of human services came forward with a great program. the concept is to get people out of the government office and what we are doing is giving social workers and asking them to leave the government office and go work in the local public elementary school. we are already doing that in 21 schools in our cities with the highest crime and challenges. in april -- excuse me, by february of this year, we will have over 135 we will have success coaches in them. that is what the government should be about. it's not about being in a government office waiting for your customer to come to you. it's about going to the customer, serving them an understanding their issues, showing success and i am happy to share one success story with you. there are few p

works george washington creates michigander and then later they say the goose and gander. but i have tried mightily. but now that it's on c-span comments live. [applause] >> [inaudible question] >> it depends on popular use. one thing that sort of came out of the 80s was humongous. there's no reason that words in the english language. these two kids are probably walking on the street in los angeles and they are like i have this humongous exam tomorrow and i haven't studied. if so that the word. if the situation. it spread like wildfire. over the years people have studied words of the great mystery of anthropology. part of the joke from los angeles to johannesburg in three days that there is a bookschley a couple of british folklorists. they talk about dish's. >> you can't imagine that he came up with this word himself. he must've heard it from a garden or someone in the street. but he is the first one to ever write it down and define it, chickadee, which is you know, is not poetic, which is made to sound like what it is. try to say it without a smile. you know, forgetting

when they landed on the moon, when you look at the united states is what thing that stands out is michigander and i can say salt mines that people don't even recognize. we have in our family, boxes and boxes of documents signed by pontiac and all these people. this river is very unique, separating two countries and a very unique way. we talk about the arsenal of democracy. i don't know if this country would've won world war ii without the city. >> talking about the specialness fire, now defaulting in a way that there's a lot more things to be proud about, not to crying, not any of this, but specialness in the wrong areas. been 61 i grew up in woodstock, the whole thing. it was like wonderful in the city. i haven't read the book. i'm anxious to read it. >> thank you. the only other thing i'll say someone mentioned to me once something about the soul. i'm trying to buy what he said, but because there's so much it created some positive energy your positive and negative energy. this guy was a druggie, strange character. but there might be something special about this all. and it's going to throw

michigander's passed over 240,000 more votes than republicans, but still elected a 9-5 republican delegationress. in ohio they say they allowed a 12-4 republican majority to return to the u.s. house of representatives despite voters' passing only 52% for republican candidates appear the same phenomenon in wisconsin as well. we reported on this phenomenon and in the republican party bragging about it on tuesday night. they brag that it is all thanks to redmap, but only thanks to that aggressive, coordinated effort to change the maps of these states so republicans with congressional seats no matter who the people in that state vote for. even though democrats got more votes. the next piece of this, what happens after redmap is that the republicans in the states where redmap worked are now quietly trying to change the rules in those states so that the same maps that results in republicans winning the house even when more people vote for democrats, the same house districts, some congressional district maps should be used to elect the president now as well. republicans in the states want electoral

and it get into this book even -- george washington creates michigander, and later people were saying, no, it's really michiganian, and i've tried mightily to get that word into the dictionary. now that it's on c-span, wow. .. >> it spread like wildfire. then a couple people over the years has studied how award are how joke, that so great initiative anthropology is how does a joke ago from los angeles to johannesburg in three days? it's partly this hidden language. there's a book by a couple of british folklore, hidden language of childhood. they talk about these things, jump rope. but again it's humongous now. but the first time you heard it into exactly what it meant. it's humongous. you know what it meant. and even in this book, the one that really, really amazed me is that john adams is credited with a word meaning the bird. you can't imagine that he came up with that himself. you probably heard it from a gardener or somebody in the street. but he's the person ever to write it down and defined and say what it is. a chickadee. which is again the word is, you know, on the monochroma